Peka-tree: Lots of benefits! Cancer, Knee pain must see!
Compiled by Watthana
Common name: Broken bones tree, Damocles tree, Indian trumpet flower.
Scientific name: Oroxylum Indicum (L.) Kurz.
In Thai, it is called Peka. Peka is a perennial and herb native to India and Southeast Asia and including Thailand. They can be found in mixed deciduous forests and humid forests.
Health Benefits of Peka:
1. Peka herb helps fight free radicals in the body. Help slow down the deterioration of various cells in the body
(young pods)
2. Help slow down the aging process and help slow down aging (young pods)
3. Helps nourish and maintain eyesight (young pods)
4. Reduce the risk of cancer (baby pods)
5. Helps improve appetite (roots, leaves)
6. Eating Peka pods or Peka’s young leaves can help lower cholesterol levels in the bloodstream
(pods, young leaves)
7. Helps nourish blood (bark)
8. Improves blood circulation (bark)
9. Helps to drive blood, eliminate toxins in the blood (bark)
10. Eating Peka’s pods warms the body (the pods)
11. Used to cure body heat (old pods)
12. Help relieve fever by using the leaves to boil drinking water (leaves)
13. Helps to expel phlegm, cure and relieve cough by using about half a handful to a handful of Peka’s seeds (1.5 – 3 grams) in a pot of 300 ml of water and boil over low heat for about 1 hour, then drink 1 glass at a time, morning, noon, and evening until symptoms resolve. (young pods, seeds, bark)
14. Appetizer (root)
15. Helps relieve angina (seeds)
16. Helps nourish the stomach, liver, and lungs (seeds)
17. Help relieve stomach pain, colic, and abdominal distension by using boiled Peka leaves with drinking water (leaves)
18. Helps cure dysentery (bark, roots)
19. Helps expel the wind in the intestines (bark, leaves)
20. Helps to drive the lymph. normalize the lymph (bark)
21. Helps reduce inflammation, various allergic reactions (bark)
22. Help maintain sexual performance as well (pods)
23. The bark powder mixed with turmeric and used as a pain reliever for horseback (bark)
24. Adding Peka’s bark to food can help reduce the spicy and sour taste (bark)
25. The bark is used to make fabric dyes. which gives a light green color (bark)
26. Peka’s wood is fine white and suitable for use in various carvings
27. Peka’s pods or young shoots are often eaten as a vegetable by bringing the young pods to cut crosswise into small pieces and burn until the outer skin is scorched and then scraped off the burnt skin.
It will reduce the bitter taste. You can cook it into curry and stir-fry. The flowers are usually boiled or blanched to eat with chili paste, larb(minced meat with vegetable and chili)
